Xi Jinping’s Anti-Corruption Campaign Takes Down Business-Executive-Turned-Official with Ties to Opposition Faction

Xi Jinping’s Anti-Corruption Campaign Takes Down Business-Executive-Turned-Official with Ties to Opposition Faction
Li Yihuang, former chairman of Jiangxi Copper and deputy governor of Jiangxi Province, in Hong Kong, on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Jerome Favre/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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The latest high-level official to get taken down in China may be in trouble because of his political ties.

On Jan. 17, the Chinese Communist Party’s anti-corruption agency announced that the deputy governor of Jiangxi Province, Li Yihuang, was being investigated for “seriously violating discipline.” The agency did not provide further details.

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Annie Wu joined the full-time staff at the Epoch Times in July 2014. That year, she won a first-place award from the New York Press Association for best spot news coverage. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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